.....we focus on grapes instead.
Growing grapes, making wine, and learning
every year since 1997.
The spirit of Hetsakais
No château.
Plenty of mistakes.
"Hetsakais" is Swiss-German for "there is none." The grapes, however, are real. My dad used to say "Smart people learn from the mistakes of others; normal people learn from their own; dumb people never learn". So, I invite you to learn from my mistakes.
This is our open notebook: what we try, what we measure, what works, and what we learn along the way.
Read our storyFrom the ground up
Follow the wine.
Every stage has a story.
These are ours.
01 / GROWThe vineyard
Soil, seasons, and the year-round work of tending the vines.
Explore the vineyard
02 / MAKEThe winery
From the first day of harvest to the last days of fermentation.
Inside the winery
03 / MATUREThe cellar
Barrels, blending, bottling, and giving the wine time to become itself.
Down to the cellarAn engineer's approach to wine
A little intuition. A lot of observation.
Understanding the wine means following the numbers. Our laboratory, records, and analysis connect what happens in the vineyard to what ends up in the glass.
The open notebook
Years of making.
Always learning.
Still climbing the learning curve.
A small vineyard in Saratoga, California.
We focus on grapes instead.